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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was M'Vy's experience in the little room?

2. What did Dab die of?

3. What is Miss Pricherd doing, when Tree sees her?

4. What does Silversmith learn about M'Vy as M'Vy tells stories to Tree?

5. What does Tree recognize as soon as she sees Silversmith and M'Vy together?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Brother Rush's house, when Brother Rush takes Tree and Dab there.

2. What are Tree's feelings about Dab's sickness?

3. Why does Tree get upset when M'Vy says that it is time to go out?

4. What ails Brother Rush?

5. What prompts Tree to decide to leave home?

6. What does Tree see from the back seat of the car, when no one knows she is there?

7. What happens that Dab gets taken to the hospital?

8. How is the relationship with Tree and Miss Pricherd different at the end of the book?

9. What happens when M'Vy follows Tree into the little room?

10. How is Silversmith described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Ken and Silversmith. How are they similar? How are they different? What are they like as people? What are they like as father figures for Tree?

Essay Topic 2

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Virginia Hamilton's writing in dialect? Does it make the story easier or harder to follow? Does it make you feel like the characters are more alive, or more like puppets? Where does the dialect really work? Where does it seem like it doesn't work as well?

Essay Topic 3

How does Tree change from the beginning of the book to the end? What has she learned, and how has she grown? How has her relationship with her mother changed?

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